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é — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • he pron Used to refer to a male person or animal already mentioned or understood.
  • him pron The object form of "he" — used for a male person or animal already mentioned.
  • it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.

Senses

é is used for these senses in English:

  • s Used to form regular plurals of nouns.
  • e (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
  • he (personal, sometimes, _, proscribed, see usage notes) They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
  • him With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
  • it The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
  • it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.

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